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I've always done the same thing for one piece, too. In fact, all my planning was to do this project with one piece rings, just like every other freakin' ring I've ever rolled. Then somewhere along the way I lost my mind and listened to someone who would have done them in two halves. In fact, I even had the material all scribed up for one piece.
At go time, I cut everything in half, and the rest is my PITA.

I'm so beside myself I want to cut these ones up, buy new material and start over. Anyone want a roller?

more pics, finally

Hello everyone.
I've been real busy, so I'm finally getting around to posting some more pictures (if anyone really cares).

1 and 2) Jigged up for welding the vertical tubes. The tubes are 3" x .120 wall. I had the 3/8" plate waterjet for a press fit so I could do the welds on the underside. I used this table to jig it all up square.

3) This is how the underside of the stands looks. Basically this is what I see before I weld the tubes. No one will see any of this, except some bugs or really small people.

4) Welded. All of these welds were done as jigged up, so it was good practice for OOP stuff. Although, it seems that most of my work is OOP.

5) Zipped up. I needed full 60" lengths which I got from 20' pieces. The ends of each 20 footer were creased as you can see in the photograph. I put it towards the backside and the pictures shows it to be much worse than it is in real time. No big deal.

2) I TIG welded the seams of the skirt and buffed them out. I can control the fill better with a TIG weld so there's less post-weld grinding on a joint like this. I just welded these up as they sat stacked on the cart in the previous pictures. Not the prettiest welds, but I was cruizin' for speed and gettin' er done.

3) Mounting plate welded across the tubes. This will receive another bracket from which the monitor will hang.

All in all, this project came out pretty well. It wasn't my design, but I was happy to oblige. I'll try to get some pictures as they sit painted and installed once the building is finished. I'm just glad they're gone and I can move on to the next project.